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Newly launched online shopping hub MatahariMall.com has teamed up with a number of companies to provide customers with seamless transactions to make shopping online even easier.
State lender Bank Mandiri, Dana Pensiun Pertamina, the state energy company’s pension fund, and electronic payment provider Digital Artha Media will join forces to to provide non-cash purchasing solutions for customers.
Under the deal, members of Dana Pensiun Pertamina can use Mandiri e-cash to receive pension benefits. The e-cash can be used to MatahariMall.com, an e-commerce platform from Indonesian conglomerate the Lippo Group, with which the Jakarta Globe is affiliated.
“With the O2O networks of MatahariMall.com that are spread all over Indonesia, we hope to give unique shopping experiences for all customers,” said Hadi Wenas, the chief executive of Solusi Ecommerce Global, operator of MatahariMall.com.
O2O refers to the concept of Online-to-Offline, which allows customers to order goods online and collect them at a nearby Matahari department store or an outlet of Hypermart.
Hadi has said previously that the e-commerce site, which provides hundreds of thousands of items ranging from fashion, beauty items and household products, has already garnered nearly 200,000 customers for its 1,200 vendors.
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the president director of Bank Mandiri, said the lender introduced Mandiri e-cash to make life easier for customers of Dana Pensiun Pertamina.
The service is aimed to ease transactions and help promote cashless transactions in the country, as people can purchase mobile phone credit, electricity vouchers and make transactions at retail outlets or online.
Users of Mandiri e-cash can also make cash withdrawals without using ATMs and make transfers to their Mandiri account.
Digital Artha Media is the provider of electronic money services for Mandiri e-cash.
